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Totalitarian vs Monarchy - What's the difference?

totalitarian | monarchy |

As nouns the difference between totalitarian and monarchy

is that totalitarian is an advocate of totalitarianism while monarchy is a government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).

As an adjective totalitarian

is a system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.

totalitarian

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • A system of government where the people have virtually no authority and the state wields absolute control of every aspect of the country, socially, financially and politically.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advocate of totalitarianism.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    monarchy

    English

    (wikipedia monarchy)

    Noun

    (monarchies)
  • A government in which sovereignty is embodied within a single, today usually hereditary head of state (whether as a figurehead or as a powerful ruler).
  • * An absolute monarchy is a monarchy where the monarch is legally the ultimate authority in all temporal matters.
  • * A constitutional monarchy is a monarchy in which the monarch's power is legally constrained, ranging from where minor concessions have been made to appease certain factions to where the monarch is a figurehead with all real power in the hands of a legislative body.
  • The territory ruled over by a monarch; a kingdom.
  • * Shakespeare
    • What scourge for perjury / Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence?
  • A form of government where sovereignty is embodied by a single ruler in a state and his high aristocracy representing their separate divided lands within the state and their low aristocracy representing their separate divided fiefs.

    • Usage notes

    Historically refers to a wide variety of systems with a single, nominally absolute ruler (compare (m), (m)), today primarily refers to and connotes a traditional, hereditary position, often with mainly symbolic power. Typically used of rulers who use the terms (m)/(m) or (m)/(m).

    Synonyms

    * autocracy * despotism * dictatorship * tyranny

    Coordinate terms

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